Tuesday, 26 September 2017

The quantity of youngsters and schools who have so far profited from the Federal Government's N6.64bn sustaining program have been uncovered.

The Federal Government, yesterday, uncovered that it has burned through N6,643,432,789 for the National Home Grown School Feeding Program, Vanguard reports.

It additionally revealed that 2,918,842 school kids from 19,881 schools in the 14 pilot conditions of the alliance were recipients of the program.

The encouraging system is a piece of President Muhammadu Buhari organization's N500 billion Social Investment Programs, SIPs, which has focused to nourish 5.5 million school kids before the finish of 2017.

An announcement marked by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande, clarified that "N6,643,432,789 has been dispensed by the Federal Government since the school encouraging system commenced toward the end of last year.

"With 3,325 schools, Kaduna State has the most elevated number of schools so far secured under the program, and the most astounding number of schoolchildren (835,508) who have been sustained. It is nearly trailed by Benue State where 2,220 schools have been secured and 240,827 schoolchildren have been sustained.

"Zamfara State likewise recorded a high number, with 1,952 schools secured and 198,788 understudies nourished under the program.

"Correspondingly, Bauchi State recorded noteworthy figures with 1,904 schools effectively secured, while 307,013 schoolchildren in the state have so far profited from the program. Also,1,850 schools have been secured and 151,438 students have been sustained in Osun State.

"In a similar vein, 1,479 schools have been secured and 171,835 students nourished so far in Taraba State; while 1,403 schools have been shrouded in Oyo State, where 107,983 understudies have been sustained.

"In Anambra State, 807 schools have been secured and 103,742 schoolchildren nourished up until now, while in Enugu State, 108,898 understudies in 622 schools have been sustained.

"In Ebonyi State, the school nourishing system has so far secured 1,050 schools and 163,137 schoolchildren have been bolstered.

"In Ogun State, 903 schools have so far been secured with 231,660 students encouraged. Likewise, a sum of 95,134 schoolchildren in 882 schools has been nourished in Plateau State.

"Delta and Abia states recorded 742 schools each, with 141,663 and 61,316 schoolchildren sustained individually."

"With the initiation of another scholarly session in September, it is normal that more schools will profit by the program, as more states would be added to the rundown, in accordance with the Federal Government focus on that 5.5 million schoolchildren would be bolstered before the finish of 2017."

The claimed enemy of unbelievable rap tycoon, Tupac Shakur, has been uncovered in a dangerous narrative that has gotten fans excited.

Tupac's executioner has been uncovered by two cops who invested years researching his demise.

Cops Tim Brennan and Robert Ladd say Crips posse part Orlando Anderson pulled the trigger from an auto in Las Vegas in September 1996.

The case stays unsolved, and his passing has been the subject of huge hypothesis — including the hypothesis that he's in reality still alive.

Be that as it may, the cops have focused on Anderson is to be faulted in the touchy new narrative Who Shot Biggie and Tupac?

Ladd told writer Soledad O'Brien and Ice-T: 'They had all these different speculations going on, however, it was a truly basic group one-on-one to Tim and me.

'We trust Orlando Anderson was the person who did it.'

The officers, who worked for Compton Police Department in California, had Anderson on their radar after he attempted to shoot somebody as a component of a Crips group start at 15 years old.

They were really researching him for a murder when the shooting of Tupac happened.

Brennan and Ladd were brought in to enable Las Vegas To police Department explore the passing.

It is trusted Anderson executed Tupac after he was freely beaten by individuals from his team.

In the quick consequence, sources told the cops that Anderson was bragging to individuals about executing Tupac.

On May 30, 1998, Anderson was executed in a triple murder over drug cash.

Quite a while later, Brennan was dealing with 3,000 weapons that had been held at Compton Police Department when he went over a 40 bore Glock — a similar firearm utilized as a part of the Tupac shooting.

The address on a tag uncovered it was found at a place of a pack part's better half. This pack part was in Vegas at the time Tupac was killed.

O'Brien theorized that 'somebody was attempting to dispose of a weapon'.

The cops ran a ballistics test and got a positive match. It was presently evident, to Brennan and Ladd, this was a similar firearm utilized as a part of the shooting.

In any case, Las Vegas Police Department assumed something else, and that was the finish of that lead.

A long time later, Brennan went to meet with Anderson's closest companion who conceded, on the record, that it was Anderson who killed Tupac.

Brennan and Ladd say Las Vegas police have done nothing with this data.

The narrative additionally puts to bed the hypothesis that Suge Knight, previous Death Row Records CEO, had Tupac slaughtered.

They ran a test indicating how the shooter quickly let go at the auto conveying Tupac and Suge, who was driving at the time.

The test reasoned that it was quite recently incredibly good fortunes that Suge didn't get lethally injured too.

Suge said, in any case, that Tupac could be alive.

He stated: 'When I exited that healing centre, I and Pac was giggling and clowning. So I don't perceive how some person could turn from doing great to doing awful.'

An exceptionally incredulous Soledad pushed him and asked: 'So you genuinely believe that he may, in any case, be alive?'

'With Pac… you never know,' the 52-year-old reacted frightfully about the rapper who passed on matured 25 from discharge wounds in the wake of viewing a Mike Tyson battle.

For those who value family so much and love the P-Square brothers, you will find this video hurtful and heartbreaking as the music duo engages in a shouting match in a bid to go their separate ways.

Reported on Monday that after a decade of dominating the Nigerian music industry, the multi-award winning pop duo, Peter Okoye and Paul Okoye of P-Square music group, have finally split and gone their separate ways after Peter filed a lawsuit to annul their business agreement through their lawyer, Festus Keyamo (SAN).

A video has been released exclusively by LIB which shows the Okoye brothers verbally abusing each other and nearly fighting while throwing chairs away during a mediating session at their lawyer's office.

Saturday, 23 September 2017

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, will on Tuesday unveil a new iconic statue of the late sage and nationalist, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.The imposing burst located on Obafemi Awolowo Way, by Lagos Television (LTV) junction in Ikeja, is a befitting replacement to the old Awolowo statue that was removed from the Allen Avenue round-about in Ikeja.

Standing at 20 feet, the new Awo burst will be unveiled by Ambode alongside notable dignitaries from across the state.The ceremony is also expected to be witnessed by members of the Awolowo family and Awoists across the country.

Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, in a statement, said Tuesday’s ceremony will reinforce Ambode’s commitment to acknowledging the contributions of patriots, whose deeds and ideas were instrumental in making Lagos State and the South-West region a formidable political and intellectual force within Nigeria.

Designed and produced by Hamza Atta, the Awo burst symbolizes and projects his true value and reminds visitors and history enthusiasts about the legacy of the foremost statesman.

Friday, 22 September 2017

A rather weird photo of a very-tall male corps member and his female colleague has sparked reactions online with different captions and memes.

The above photo between a tall male member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and a petite-sized female corps member has emerged online and has been trailed with mixed reactions with different captions and memes from social media users.

Tuesday, 19 September 2017

No less than six people who are infamous for printing, offering and spending of fake local and foreign currencies, have been caught and paraded by the Police.

Talking while at the same time parading some criminal suspects previously writers at the Osun State Police Command in Osogbo, on Monday, the State Commissioner of Police, Adeoye Fimihan, affirmed the capture of six people regarding the printing, offering and spending of fake local and foreign currencies.

Among the suspects is a botanist, Odediran Semiu, said to be represented considerable authority in the printing of fake foreign currencies and cheating simple customers. The suspects gave subtle elements of how they did their detestable demonstrations without the learning of the police and general society.

Premium Times detailed that the 52-year-old suspect, Saheed Alabi, who did the printing, said he had printed a huge number of naira of fake cash.

He said; "One man named Femi was the person who gives me the employment. At a go, for a portion of the printing, he gives me N5,000 as my wage. I have helped him do a huge number of fake cash."

Another suspect, who gave his name as Lateef, who belittled the syndicate, said he purchased N1.6 million at the rate of N500,000 of unique money.

Moses Jonah who additionally participated in the unlawful printing of the cash said his dad had N6.5 million of the fake cash, however, Femi had gotten away with the currencies.

The fake cash and different materials utilized as a part of the printing were recuperated from the suspects and shown amid the parade.

Fimihan told writers that the syndicate was crushed by the Police Special Patrol Team in Ife, Osun State, about a month back when the group secured somebody with fake money amid a stop and hunt workout.

He said encourage examination drove the police to where the fake naira notes were printed and the proprietor of the printing press was captured.

"Over the span of the examination court order was executed which made it workable for us to recoup other fake cash at the printing press that is situated in Lagos," the police manager said.

The expansion of the neighborhood economy as unequivocally pushed by the President Muhammadu Buhari-drove organization is starting to yield great natural products.

India has moved toward Nigeria to supply it with $1billion (about N367 billion) worth of Pulse Beans.

The Director, Agricultural Business, Processing and Marketing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Azeez Olumuyiwa, made this disclosure at a sensitization workshop on farming held for officers of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF).

He said that the offer was tabled by the Indian Ambassador to Nigeria, Nagabushana Reddy, at a conference with Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh.

"The Indian envoy said Pulse Beans is a nourishment assortment expended four to five times every day by Indians. He has offered to purchase $1billion worth of the items from Nigeria in the event that we can deliver it," Azeez said.

As per him, India, the world's second most crowded country, required 27 million metric huge amounts of heartbeat beans. Nigeria's present creation limit with respect to the delivery is around 47 million metric tons.

Heartbeat Beans is a decent wellspring of iron and is essentially developed in Bauchi, Borno States and in addition in Shaki, Oyo State. The national government has additionally conceded unease at China's intends to start to utilize bio-ethanol gas the nation over by 2020.

The utilization of bio-fuel, seen as the other option to fossil vitality, is foiling for Nigeria as China is one of the significant purchasers of her raw petroleum.

As opposed to keeping on importing fuel, China needs to concentrate on bio-ethanol gas creation which is a subordinate sourced from sugarcane and corn.

Ogbeh, who uncovered government's inclination on the improvement, additionally focused on that two months prior, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, India, Norway and the Netherlands have demonstrated plans to boycott fuel-run autos in around two decades, to lessen air contamination and spare petroleum product vitality.

"It is not an especially calming news for us in light of the fact that with this improvement, there will be less interest for oil and gas. By 2030, every one of these nations will be utilizing electric autos. The best way to set us up from the income that will never again be accessible from oil is by concentrating on farming," Ogbeh said in a discourse read by his Special Assistant, Winifred Ochinyabo.

The priest said that lone 44 for every penny of Nigeria's 79 million hectares of arable land was at present used, while the nation requires six million metric huge amounts of rice per year to sustain its substantial populace.

The agrarian workshop was held for the NAF officers to urge them to grasp cultivating after retirement.

The program secured introduction on the circulation of data sources materials, warehousing, handling of sustenance, domesticated animals cultivating, bio-fuel generation and running of Agric expansion work. The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadique Abubakar, was spoken to at the workshop by NAF Chief of Administration, AVM Lawal Alao.

The Biafra question was never tended to after the war. Buhari must take some time to consider what the Igbo need, why they feel sidelined, and what he can do to influence them to feel some portion of Nigeria.

Peace can't be kept by compel; it must be accomplished by comprehension. — Albert Einstein

Whoever he is, the military officer who instituted the code name 'Python Dance' is a virtuoso. Despite the fact that a unique adaptation of the military operation, the Python Dance I, held between November 27 and December 27, 2016, nobody ought to have looked any more distant than the code name to derive the conceivable result of the armed force's most recent invasion into the south-east. As an agitator researcher, I'll separate this.

'PYTHON DANCE' MORE THAN MERE NOMENCLATURE

In spite of the fact that they are a group of nonvenomous snakes, pythons, deductively Pythonidae, can be greatly hazardous. They are a portion of the biggest snakes on the planet and are infamous trap predators in that they regularly lay still to avoid the notice of a passing prey yet then abruptly strike when threat is slightest anticipated.

Normally, nobody should prod the python — that is the place Nnamdi Kanu and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) failed to understand the situation. Despite the fact that it looks harmless when still, a python can't be dynamic without delivering hurt — that is the misconception of the armed force, the possibility that the operation would keep running without strain.

Preceding the take-off of the operation, the Nigerian Army acted like a python, posting a pile of innocuous exercises to conceal its one dubious point of the operation.

David Dawandi, a Major-General and Chief of Training and Operations of the armed force, said in an announcement on September 8, that "amid the activity, accentuation will be put on strikes, cordon-and-inquiry operations, against grabbing drills, detours, checkpoints, watches, and philanthropic help exercises, for example, therapeutic effort".

That is the still python. The announcement likewise influenced it to clear that there would be a "show of power to check the rising danger to national security in the south-eastern piece of the nation". A "show of power"? That is a python in snare mode. The outline is that it was a superfluous operation. For some reasons.

Unnecessary DANCE

Nnamdi Kanu's court trial is continuous. When he profits to court for October 17, the court will hear the government's application for the renouncement of his safeguard. There is no possibility Kanu will win that contention — unless Justice Binta Nyako, who allowed him safeguard in April, needs to make a joke of herself and the legal. Kanu has over and again damaged his safeguard conditions, the most evident being his denial from hanging out with an organization of more than 10 or giving meetings.

The infringement of the last Kanu has effectively endeavored to safeguard, strangely guaranteeing that he doesn't "allow interviews" however he just "answers the inquiries" of columnists since it would be "impolite and pompous" of him to stay silent when posed an inquiry! In any case, no such clever clarification exists for the previous; there are various recordings of him among scores and crowds of individuals, including recordings of him lecturing crude despise.

Kanu's arrival to jail will be changeless in October, so the primary inquiry to the armed force; why reveal the pythons against a suffocating foe?

While the pythons were all the while moving, the resistance central command raced to assign IPOB a psychological militant gathering without pausing for a minute to discover the methods, as set around a similar law they case to be authorizing.

The armed force blundered by neglecting to take after the arrangements of the Terrorism (Prevention) Act 2011, corrected in 2013, that "setting up or seeking after demonstrations of psychological warfare, the judge in Chambers may on an application made by the Attorney General, National Security Adviser or Inspector General of Police on the endorsement of the President; proclaim an element to be a restricted association and the notice ought to be distributed in official newspaper".

Indeed, even that move itself is a pointless excess. Obviously, Nnamdi Kanu is extremely irritating — I can envision the Chief of Army Staff watching him in one of his various despise recordings and tingling to get his throat and choke him.

There can be no contentions that he is shaky: by what means can a man who so energetically lectured Nigeria's solidarity under Goodluck Jonathan now so eagerly champion severance? However, a more cautious take a gander at him will uncover his actual nature: a negligible radio/web noisemaker hoisted to the status of Biafra champion by a fanatical and unlawful Muhammadu Buhari government.

Kanu could never appreciate a large portion of his present prevalence on the off chance that he wasn't over and over denied safeguard. Kanu talks excessively; resolute revolutionaries talk less and act more. His Biafra Security Service (BSS) is toothless; not one of the supposed learners conveyed any kind of weapon.

They, actually, looked too befuddled to be in any way ready to withstand showdown by a private, the most reduced positioned officer of the Nigerian armed force. Little ponder Kanu himself is currently sequestered from everything.

Read this likewise: Military assigns IPOB 'fear based oppressor association'

LESSONS AND QUESTIONS

The sending of officers toward the south-east has caused unnecessary strain. The demise of a difficult to-learn number of individuals, the strike on presumed IPOB individuals (which, coincidentally, will go unpunished regardless of the armed force's case to be examining it), the brushing of transports by IPOB individuals in Aba for Hausa to hurt, the Igbo-Hausa pressure in Jos and Port Harcourt are on the whole stressing situations that would have been stayed away from without military activity.

The fuming between ethnic strain is troubling; this is the manner by which wars begin. In the previous week, regardless of whether we let it be known or not, Nigeria made one mammoth stride towards a moment Civil War.

The good thing, however, is that the circumstance is still sensibly under control. To turn away an aggregate breakdown of lawfulness, our pioneers must gain from our history and put forth the hard inquiries.

Discussing lessons, it is difficult to envision how rapidly our pioneers have overlooked the part of military activity in the heightening of Boko Haram from a peaceful ideological gathering under Yusuf Mohammed to a heartlessly vicious one under Abubakar Shekau.

The 2009 police crackdown on Boko Haram in Bauchi prompted savagery in Kano, Yobe and Borno states; and after Mohammed's catch by the military and extrajudicial execution by the police, the reins of Boko Haram fell on the aggressive, murderous Shekau.

The rest, as it's been said, is history. It will take a long time for the north to recuperate from the demolish of this uprising — the passings of several thousands, uprooting of no less than 3million individuals, the helpful emergency, the sheer decimation of greenery, the physical and financial relapse.

In this way, regardless of the possibility that the military prevails with regards to taking out Kanu, the Biafra mantle will normally be exchanged to another person, who may even be more perilous than Kanu. Civility, not drive, is the thing that President Muhammadu Buhari needs to deal with Kanu and the Biafra disturbance.

There are two inquiries the administration must answer if Nigeria must stay serene. Why, regardless of his clear shortcoming of character, absence of reason, wild selection of words, does Kanu keep instructing enormous youth following? What's more, why, after right around four decades post-Civil War, would we say we are as yet talking about Biafra? I don't have every one of the appropriate responses, however I'll supply a few.

To begin with question: as I said prior, Kanu is the main recipient of government's abuse of energy. Be that as it may, all the more significantly, Kanu's devotees are for the most part comprised of jobless or unfruitfully utilized, disappointed youth who have at last discovered somebody to relate to their battles.

For the second, it must imply that the Biafra question was never tended to after the war. Buhari must take some time to consider what the Igbo need, why they feel sidelined, and what he can do to influence them to feel some portion of Nigeria.

Something else, a honest to goodness Biafra question will be left in the hands of an entrepreneurial Kanu, and we will lose a brilliant chance to for the last time settle our disparities and reinforce the obligation of our nationhood.

Buhari should give the courts a chance to choose Kanu's destiny. He should cast off the utilization of power and grasp exchange — in light of the fact that regardless, a million pythons can't move away the Biafra question!

About the Author:

Fisayo Soyombo, is the Editor of the International Center for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), tweets @fisayosoyombo

Saturday, 16 September 2017

Small time's meat is another man's toxic substance. While a few women would rather agree to a delicate, adoring man, Nollywood performer, Didi Ekanem needs an 'awful kid'.

While talking in an elite meeting with Daily Sun, quick rising Nollywood performing artist, Didi Ekanem, uncovered that she needs a 'terrible kid' for an existence accomplice as a few women would rather make due with a delicate, cherishing and benevolent man.

The bootilicious screen star went further and uncovered the purposes for her choice as he additionally discusses her profession and desires.

Here are passages from the visit;

It appears to be most performing artists are going into the design business, why did you join the pattern?

I didn't join any pattern. I have dependably had an affection for design and excellence even before I turned into a performing artist. Growing up, before I went out, I'd spruce up and disrobe around 20 times until the point that I locate the ideal outfit for whatever occasion I was going for. It was a custom and it proceeded till date. In this way, it's just typical that I'm into design business today.

We see the way you display what you got via web-based networking media, most particularly Instagram, do you frequently get negative remarks? In the event that you do, how would you deal with them?

I really don't focus on negative remarks. Be that as it may, do you mean displaying my garments? It's critical I do that for the development of my business.

Not garments entirely rather you're posterior…

Gracious, that! Do you call it displaying? Without a doubt? I don't think so…

You know a few men dribble over huge posteriors; would you be able to review any humiliating minute concerning this?

If it's not too much trouble would we be able to not discuss ass? Much thanks to you.

Would you say you are satisfied as a performing artist?

How might I be satisfied when I've scarcely begun? I am not satisfied o, still hungry for additional.

Is it accurate to say that you were anytime sexually annoyed?

I wasn't still. I had the correct stage from Royal Arts Academy. That made it simple for me.

Have you generally needed to be a performing artist?

Truly, I have for the longest time been itching to be an on-screen character. I knew it from my unreasonable viewing of Nollywood motion pictures amid occasions. Consistently, my father used to give me cash in those days, to lease motion pictures… and everybody in my neighborhood knew I was fixated on films. Along these lines, later when they began viewing my films, it was typical to them.

In the event that you aren't in media outlets, what else would you have been doing?

I haven't really thought of what else I could have done aside amusement since appropriate from time, excitement had dependably been at the forefront of my thoughts; despite the fact that, my daddy needed to constrain law on me sooner or later.

What sort of part will Didi dismiss playing?

It's surely going to be a naked part. Over-uncovering parts aren't for me.

Would you be able to date or wed a performer?

I can't state who I can wed or who I can't wed. Whoever God says is mine, will be mine, be he a performer, designer, specialist or minister. My sort of man must be God-dreading. He should be deferential and minding, with a little terrible kid character, clearly not a drag, a man that can love me right.

Mixed reactions from Nigerians have trailed some viral photos of a woman publicly looking for a job for her husband in the commercial city of Lagos.

A Twitter client has shared some photos of a woman publicly looking for a job for her husband and the images got the internet buzzing as many are stunned as to how much the woman cherished her man such a great amount to help search for a job for him.

The woman is seen carrying placard on the highway (which resembles a location in Lagos) with the inscription: 'Please I need a job for my husband...' The telephone number to contact the said husband was also written on the placard.

The tweet has since turned into a web sensation with more than 3000 retweets and 600 likes as at the time of publishing this post as mixed reactions trailed the post.

An analyst stated; "What a woman!I trust the man is altogether deserving of her and appreciates her efforts."

"I ponder where the lazy automaton of a husband is. She needs another husband more than her husband needs a job," another reacted.

A social media blasted other criticizing her; "You don't have an idea what the husband is doing. Quit being so judgmental."